The lowest Electoral College score for any candidate was four years prior to that, when former Vice President Walter Mondale won just one state and Washington, D.C., for a total of 13 votes, against President Ronald Reagan, who was running for re-election.

Eight years after Clinton lost to Donald Trump, Kamala Harris didn’t even mention that she would be the first woman president in her acceptance speech at the party convention. They tried it in two very different ways. One leaning into identity politics and the other leaning away.